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Ayo Edebiri for Citizen Magazine Photographed by Justin French

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I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?

Nim Chimpsky.

Fucking monkey pun.

And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But

BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.

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Apparently back in the day lighthouse keepers HAD to have a wife to get the job so they wouldn’t be too lonely and go insane. So what I’m saying is

Fake dating au where they pretend to be married so one of them can get a job as a lighthouse keeper.

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Narrator: She did, in fact, have superpowers that nobody told HER about.

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Commission for @beastalchemistva - Commissions | Twitter | Bluesky | Instagram | Mastadon

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metaphor prologue

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LMAO THEY WERE RUTHLESS

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The Locked Tomb Series Official Reading Order:

- The Iliad

- The Bible

- The Apocryphal Book of Judith

- Dante's Inferno and Paradise Lost

- Don Quixote

- Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

- Revolutionary Girl Utena

- Homestuck

- Umineko

- Gideon the Ninth

- The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex

- Lolita

- Harrow the Ninth

- Harrow the Ninth Again

- The Barbie Movie

- As Yet Unsent

- Nona the Ninth

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1504 varieties of Romanian tomatoes at the Brussels festival

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Would you like a slice of his cake? He worked so hard on it.

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you may take my hand... but you'll never take my spirit, and my respiratory system!

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Born to be a lover girl forced to master detachment and avoidance

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Red-billed Oxpecker (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) on a rhino, sound asleep.

In South Africa by Zaheer Ali: Zali_Photo

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nasa: we're going to shoot three rockets directly at the sun during the total eclipse. for study and research purposes.

me: oh cool

nasa: we have named the rockets apep. this stands for atmospheric perturbations [in the] eclipse path.

me: oh cool

nasa: apep is also the ancient egyptian deity of chaos and darkness, who ceaselessly seeks to extinguish the sun. we launch these rockets directly at the sun in the name of apep.

me: oh... cool?